The Borderlands Limited Edition

 

release date: 15th April 2024

 

A found-footage horror film following Vatican investigators sent to a remote English church to authenticate miracles. They uncover sinister forces as inexplicable phenomena occur, leading to a harrowing descent into supernatural horror. Tasked with documenting their findings, tensions rise among the team as they confront demonic manifestations and unearth dark secrets lurking within the church’s ancient walls. With each eerie encounter, their skepticism is challenged, and their faith tested, culminating in a chilling revelation that threatens to consume them all in a relentless spiral of terror and despair.

 

• New audio commentary by Actors Robin Hill and Gordon Kennedy, Producer Jennifer Handorf and Special Effects Designer Dan Martin

• Dressed the Part: a new interview with Robin Hill and Gordon Kennedy

• Losing Faith: a new interview with Jennifer Handorf

• Monster Goo: a new interview with Dan Martin

• Archive featurette: Behind the Scenes

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Christopher Shy

• 70-page book with new essays by Tim Coleman, Martyn Conterio, Shellie McMurdo and Johnny Walker

• 6 collectors’ art cards 

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Basket Case Limited Edition

 

release date: 29th April 2024

 

The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter (Brain Damage, Frankenhooker), 1982’s Basket Case is a riotous and blood-spattered “midnight movie” experience. Duane Bradley seems like a pretty ordinary guy. His formerly conjoined twin Belial, on the other hand, is a deformed creature who lives in a wicker basket. Arriving in the Big Apple and taking up a room at a seedy hotel, the pair set about hunting down and butchering the surgeons responsible for their separation. 

Filmed on a shoestring budget against the backdrop of 1980s New York (where it played on the midnight movie circuit for over two-and-a-half years), Basket Case has clawed its way from its humble origins to become one of the most celebrated cult movies of all time.

 

• 4K restoration from the original 16mm negative by the Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with director Frank Henenlotter 

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation 

• Original uncompressed PCM mono audio 

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing 

• Audio commentary with writer/director Frank Henenlotter and star Kevin Van Hentenryck 

• Archival audio commentary with Frank Henenlotter, producer Edgar Ievins, actor Beverly Bonner and filmmaker Scooter McRae 

• Basket Case 3-1/2: An Interview with Duane Bradley – short film by Frank Henenlotter 

• Me and the Bradley Boys – interview with actor Kevin Van Hentenryck 

• A Brief Interview with Director Frank Henenlotter – a strange 2017 interview with the director 

• Seeing Double: The Basket Case Twins – interview with actors Florence and Mary Ellen Schultz 

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All That Money Can Buy – The Criterion Collection

 

release date: 8th April 2024

 

Jabez Stone is a hardworking farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the devil himself. In exchange for seven years of good fortune, Stone promises “Mr. Scratch” his soul. But when the troubled farmer begins to realize the error of his choice, he enlists the aid of the one man who might save him: the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster. Directed with stylish flair by William Dieterle, All That Money Can Buy brings the classic short story by Stephen Vincent Beneět to life with inspired visuals, an unforgettable, Oscar-winning score by Bernard Herrmann, and a truly diabolical performance from Walter Huston as the devil.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder and Steven C. Smith, biographer of composer Bernard Herrmann

• New restoration demonstration

• Reading by actor Alec Baldwin of the short story by Stephen Vincent Benét on which the film is based

• Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the film’s editing

• Comparison of the differences between the July 1941 preview version of the film, Here Is a Man, and the film’s 1943 rerelease as The Devil and Daniel Webster

• The Columbia Workshop’s radio adaptations of Beneět’s short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster” and “Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent,” both featuring music by Herrmann

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The beast in the cellar

 

release date: 22nd April 2024

 

When soldiers stationed in the local community are mauled to death in the local woods, a wild cat is thought to be the culprit. However, two sisters, begin to suspect that their brother who has been locked in their cellar for 30 years may be responsible. This creepy early 70s horror starring Beryl Reid (Psychomania) and Flora Robson (Eye of the Devil, Fragment of Fear) carries a brooding tension that is both claustrophobic and horrible. A bonafide cult classic.

 

• LIMITED EDITION GLOSSY O-RING

• Booklet Notes by Andrew Graves

• 2K Remaster from 4K Scans of the Original Negatives presented in High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray in 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio

• Original Uncompressed Mono
  Optional English SDH

• Audio commentary by associate producer Christopher Neame and executive producer Tony Tenser, moderated by author John Hamilton

• Audio Commentary By Film Critics David Flint and Allan Bryce

• Beats in the Cellar – An Interview with Composer Tony Macaulay

• Beast in the Cells – An Interview with Editor Nicholas Napier-Bell

• Sound From the Cellar – An Interview with Sound Camera Operator Graham V. Hartstone

• Getting in the Cellar – An Interview with Actor Christopher Chittell

• Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore & original poster

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Suzhou River

 

release date: 29th April 2024

 

A videographer narrates the story of Mardar, a small-time crook who delivers packages without asking questions, until he is tasked with delivering Moudan, the daughter of a shady smuggler. After a failed kidnapping attempt sees Moudan disappear and Mardar imprisoned, Mardar returns to the Suzhou River to look for Moudan. Instead, he discovers Meimei, a woman who looks identical to his long-lost love, and also happens to be the subject of our videographer narrator’s obsession.  Set within the murky wastelands of Shanghai, Lou Ye’s award-winning re-tooling of Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a visual treat that features the kinetic style of Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express. 

 

• 4K restoration of the film from the original negative

• 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

• Newly filmed interview with critic and programmer Tony Rayns (2024, 33 mins)

• In Shanghai – a short film documentary portrait by Lou of his home city (2001, 16 mins) 

• Original trailer

• Optional English subtitles

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow

• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Josh Slater-Williams, Tony Rayns, a newly translated archival interview with Lou Ye and producer Philippe Bober

• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

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That Cold Day In The Park

 

release date: 29th April 2024

 

Made after years of directing television and industrial films – and just one year before his commercial breakthrough with M*A*S*H – Robert Altman’s underrated psychosexual chiller That Cold Day in the Park, arguably the first true ‘Altman film’, is a stylish harbinger of the themes that would resonate through many of the director’s later masterpieces such as Images and 3 Women. On a cold and rainy day, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis, Academy Award winner for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), a reclusive virgin sheltered from the sexual revolution happening outside her door, suddenly becomes obsessed with an enigmatic 19 year-old boy she sees sitting on a park bench. Inviting him into her apartment to be bathed and fed, Frances’ repressed fantasies soon violently boil over into a dangerous and disturbing desire to keep the boy in her clutches… no matter what.

 

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation

• Original lossless mono audio

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• New audio commentary by critic Samm Deighan

• Isolated music and effects track in lossless mono

• Crazy in the Rain: Altman’s Vancouver, a newly produced featurette revisiting the locations by Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women

• Archive interview with film critic and historian David Thompson, author of Altman on Altman

• Extended scenes from a pre-release print of the film, never seen on home video before

• Over ten minutes of behind-the-scenes footage featuring Altman and Dennis, from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of a newly extended 114-minute version of the film re-integrating previously deleted material from a surviving pre-release print

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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Complete Box Set

 

release date: 29th April 2024

 

Experience the entire saga with all nine movies, including bonus discs for each film, in one complete set available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. From young Anakin Skywalker’s journey to the dark side to the rise of the Resistance and their quest for peace, the story of a generation unfolds to a riveting conclusion. The saga may end, but its story lives on forever. Immerse yourself in breathtaking sound quality with Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 across all nine episodes, enhancing every moment of this epic cinematic journey through the galaxy far, far away.

 

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